Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira mārjanādau. This is the advice. This is business of guru, to engage how the arms can be engaged. You can engage your arms for decorating the Deity, for sewing the clothing, dress, garland. In this way you can engage your arms. Voice in speaking about Kṛṣṇa, eyes to see Kṛṣṇa nicely decorated, come to the temple. For coming to the temple your legs will be used. And after coming to the temple, your hands will be used, your eyes will be used, your ear will be used, your tongue will be used—chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, take prasāda. In this way, if we engage all our senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then we are victorious. Otherwise, it is not possible. Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane (SB 9.4.18). We have got our senses. Senses cannot be stopped working; that is not possible. The Māyāvādī philosophers, they stay that stop, nirvāṇa. Buddha philosophy: stop sense activity. That is not possible. That is impossible. Then how we can control the senses? You can control the senses by engaging all of them in Kṛṣṇa's service. Then it is controlled. Otherwise not.
Therefore our business is . . . "Artificially, I shall not see anything." Now how it is possible? You'll see in the mind. Suppose you close your eyes, but there are so many impressions, they will come within the mind, even if you close your eyes. The so-called meditation means he has closed his eyes but he's thinking of his beloved or his business or something like, something like that. So it is not possible. First of all, you have to fix up your mind in Kṛṣṇa. Always think of Kṛṣṇa. That is advised by Kṛṣṇa. Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru. These four principles guarantees, Kṛṣṇa says. Mām evaiṣyasi asaṁśayaḥ (BG 18.68). If you simply execute these four things, then Kṛṣṇa guarantees, asaṁśaya, without any doubt, "You are coming back to Me, back to home, back to Godhead." It is so nice.
So mind engaged in Kṛṣṇa, always think of Kṛṣṇa. We are seeing Kṛṣṇa here so nicely dressed, decorated, and immediately there is impression with the mind, and you can think the whole day. And Kṛṣṇa says he is first-class yogī who,
- yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
- mad-gatenāntarātmanā
- śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
- sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
- (BG 6.47)
He is first-class yogī. There are different types of yogī. Kṛṣṇa says yoginām api sarveṣām. Sarveṣām means all different kinds of yogīs. There are many. "But one yogī, bhakta-yogī or dhyāna-yogī, who is always thinking of Me within the mind, he is first class." He is first class. That we have to practice. We have got our senses, and the sense . . . We are covered by the network of the senses—the knowledge-gathering senses, the working senses, the sense objects. Everything is explained here.
- pañcabhiḥ kurute svārthān
- pañca vedātha pañcabhiḥ
- ekas tu ṣoḍaśena trīn
- svayaṁ saptadaśo 'śnute
- (SB 6.1.50)
So this is practice. This is called bhakti-yoga practice. Engage your senses, all senses, working senses and perceiving senses, everything in Kṛṣṇa, and that will make you perfect.
So the mind, as it is said here . . . Similarly, Kṛṣṇa personally says that sa vai . . . yoginām api sarveṣām (BG 6.47), sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa (SB 9.4.18). Mind, engage always mind. Do something for Kṛṣṇa, then the mind automatically will be engaged, something. Just like a nationalist, a family man, he is doing always something for the welfare of the family or for the welfare of the society. Or a big, big nationalist, leaders. Why they become big leaders? Why they are worshiped? Because they are thinking always of the nation, of the community. They are . . . (indistinct) . . .. That is good. But a Vaiṣṇava is not only thinking of the community or society or family, he is thinking of all living entities. That is Vaiṣṇava. Lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau, all planets. That is Vaiṣṇava. Nānā-śāstra vicāraṇaika nipuṇau sad-dharma-saṁsthāpakau lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau tri-bhuvane mānyau śaraṇyākarau. This is Vaiṣṇava business. They are not thinking for a particular . . . That includes. Kṛṣṇa includes everything. So if you think of Kṛṣṇa, then automatically you'll think of everything. The same process: watering the root. Why we are preaching? Why, what was the necessity to come in the Western country? No. Kṛṣṇa wants; Caitanya Mahāprabhu wants. Therefore devotee goes from town to town, village to village. Pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi-grāma (CB Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126). This is Vaiṣṇava. He is thinking for everyone. Because it is a fact, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, everyone is suffering. That's a fact. So therefore preaching is so important—to awaken them. Jīva jago, jīva jago, gauracand . . . This is Gauracanda, Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, to awaken everyone from this material entanglement. That is preaching.